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Mr. C J. Wellborn, Blairsville, Union County, Ga., writes under 

 date of June 12, 1885, that "in May, 1878, locusts appeared south 

 of this place and the northern limit then was the present southern 

 limit of the territory covered now (by Brood X, 1885)." 



Mr. James Pagon, Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S. C, writes that 

 locusts appeared in South Carolina in 1878, but does not give definite 

 localities. Both these records need confirmation. 



Brood XXX, 1905.— Mv. B. H. Brodnax, Brodnax, Morehouse 

 Parish, La., writes under date of May 13, 1892, that Cicadas are 

 scatteringly present, and in a later letter he asserts that the insect in 

 question is the periodical Cicada, with which he is familiar. 



The records given above of new broods of the 13-year race are 

 rather unsatisfactory, and it may be true that the 13-year race has 

 not by any means distributed itself over its entire period, and the 

 broods still cluster about the two main representatives of the race, 

 namely Broods XIX and XXIII. 



Washington, D. C, May 1, 1902. 



